China News Agency, Urumqi, April 16th: "Digital Cotton" in Xinjiang's cotton industry upgrade
Author Gou Jipeng
"This year, I planted more than 300 mu of cotton. In the past few years, I planted it with small machinery. This year, I will use unmanned large-scale seeders, plant protection drones, cotton pickers, etc., and the technology content of farming is getting higher and higher. ” said Wang Fulin, a cotton farmer in Yinbostein Village, Kumish Town, Toksun County, Xinjiang.
Recently, 80,000 mu of cotton has been sown in Toksun County.
The reporter saw in the field that the unmanned cotton planter equipped with the navigation system can complete the operations such as film laying, drip irrigation tape laying, sowing, and soil covering at one time, with a sharp increase in efficiency.
According to reports, all 117 cotton farmers in Imbostan Village, Kumish Town have used large-scale planters this year.
Right now is the cotton planting season in Xinjiang. The reporter noticed that in the vast cotton fields, this kind of Beidou navigation + unmanned sowing has become the norm.
Mamuti Dawuti, a cotton farmer in Wensu County, will plant 3,000 mu of cotton this year.
Recently, he introduced to reporters through a video connection at a press conference: "This is a residual film recovery machine, this is a joint planter, this 'big guy' has a Beidou satellite positioning system, I used it in advance. The mobile phone sets the latitude and longitude of the cotton field, and then the planting can be automatically planted." He said that before planting more than ten acres of cotton, the family was too busy to plant thousands of acres of land.
In recent years, Xinjiang has continuously improved its agricultural modernization, and the mechanization rate of cotton planting has steadily increased.
At the same time, with the application of technical means such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data models, intelligent and digital cotton planting methods have also begun to emerge.
At the end of 2021, Manas County, Changji Prefecture signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Agricultural Guoji (Xinjiang) Technology Co., Ltd. to start the construction of a 200,000-mu "future smart digital cotton" project, which is currently entering the early stage of implementation.
According to reports, the project will realize a precise, systematic and industrialized ecological closed loop in planting plan, field management, industrial ecology and other links, and can realize one-click access to planting plan, accurate cotton management, and accurate disaster disaster Prevention and control, integration of water and fertilizer irrigation, intelligent operation of cultivation management and harvesting, etc.
"This 'digital cotton' is to change cotton planting from experience-based to intelligent. Previously relying on experience, now relying on artificial intelligence, even the new generation of farmers without planting experience can use this model to grow high-quality, high-yield crops of cotton." Gao Xincheng, chairman of Zhongnong Guoji (Xinjiang) Technology Co., Ltd., said that the future of the cotton industry lies in comprehensive digitalization, and the digital transformation of Xinjiang's cotton industry has entered an "enlightenment" period.
In order to promote "digital cotton", a few days ago, Liuhudi Town, Manas County, Changji Prefecture held a lecture on "Future Smart Digital Cotton".
"Through today's lecture, we have a certain understanding of 'digital cotton'. We did not expect that cotton can be so high-tech." Peng Shenghui, a local cotton farmer, said that he hopes to grow "digital cotton" himself in the near future. ".
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